Jake Guzik

Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik (20 March 1886-21 February 1956) was a Chicago Outfit hitman under Al Capone.

Biography
Jake Guzik was born on 20 March 1886 in Krakow, Eastern Galicia, Poland to a Jewish family from Katowice. Guzik later emigrated to the US city of Chicago, Illinois, and he became a pimp and a bagman under Johnny Torrio and the Chicago Outfit, picking up money for him. Guzik refused to kill people, instead working as the financial wizard of the gang under Al Capone. Capone always listened to Guzik's advice during gang wars, and Capone even killed a man who was bullying Guzik for his Jewish faith. After Capone fell ill, Guzik took care of him and his family with his own money, and Guzik remained loyal to Capone until his 1932 arrest. Guzik himself would later be arrested by the IRS for tax evasion, but he was able to return home and die in a South Side apartment on 21 February 1956 at the age of 69.